Do genetics determine fertility?

Question

I was just wondering?

I come from a family that has a lot of kids. My mother was 1 of 9, my father 1 of 6 and on my mother's side, we have people who have had 15-18 kids. Would someone from that background issues have fertility issues from genetics?

Answer 1

I seem to recall that genetics plays little or no part in fertility issues, after all, babies run in the family .... ha ha ha! We've all got parents, so we've all come from fertile people I guess :)  No-one is quite sure if environmental impact is causing more of the new fertility issues, or if it's just that we're all more comfortable talking about fertility than the previous generations were. But I'm sure you'll be TOTALLY fine!